A House in Kyneton

This is an interesting house in the Victorian town of Kyneton.

The house is a fairly standard Australian weatherboard house except for the Art Deco style stepped brick chimney and (perhaps rendered) front porch.

I like how the owners have brought their colour scheme onto the picket fence around the front garden with the regular placemnet of three taller pickets painted brown.

Shamrock Hotel, Kyneton

The Shamrock Hotel in Kyneton has a wonderful Art Deco brick facade. A second storey balcony provides a verandah over the footpath.

The brick of the balcony and it's roof contrast nicely with the cream render on the supporting columns. The end is also rendered and bears the name of the pub.

Above the doorway, the roofline steps up and this part of the brickwork is decorated with several vertical lines of darker bricks. Elsewhere, the decoration consists of horizontal lines of darker coloured bricks.

At the side street, to the left in the above photo, the building curves around the corner adding another deco feature to this elegant building.

Newmarket Hotel, Kyneton

I think this very impressive art deco balcony and verandah is bolted onto an earlier version of the hotel.

This is the Newmarket Hotel. "Kynetons Premier Nite-Spot" or so the banner on the front reads.

Off to the right there is an extension in deco style but the underlying structure of the main part of the hotel looks older to me.

According to the Australian Heritage website, there was a Newmarket Hotel in Kyneton in 1870. The site relates the story of the bushranger Ned Kelly having appeared in the local Court House on charges of robbery under arms was held at the Newmarket Hotel at police expense for three weeks after the charges were withdrawn while money was found to pay for his return home to Greta.

If this is the same Newmarket Hotel where Ned stayed in 1870 then it must have had a makeover 50 or 60 years later to create the magnificent Newmarket Hotel in this picture.